ADOLPHUS WHITE (1811-1870)

Brothers

We often see that settlers arrived at a new place with their
brothers and sisters. When I see multiple families with the same
surname and the same birthplace settling in the same county, I think it
is a good bet they are brothers. Often a married sister can be found or
inferred by proximity to a brother.

The Georgia Property Tax Digest for 1878-1882 (exact year unknown)
is as good a source as any for using proximity to show some likely
White brothers, even when one doesn't have definite proof. These Whites
were listed as living in Paulding County, Eutah District #1207.Ancestry.com "Georgia, Property Tax Digests, 1793-1892," Frame
136 of 924.

White, Moses B.(b. 1832, son of
Adolphus White) owned 240 acres and personal property valued at
$1337, including livestock worth $207.White, John C. Sr. (b. 1842, son of
Adolphus White) owned 90 acres and property, all valued at $575,
including livestock worth $125.
White, John C. Jr. owned no real estate, personal property valued
at $60 including livestock worth $20.White, William (b. 1820) owned
120 acres and other property all valued at $725, including livestock
worth $100.
White, Benjn. F (b. 1845, son of William White) had no polls and no
land. His personal property totaled $83 including livestock worth $58.White, Adolphus D. (b.1850, son of
William White) owned 80 acres and property valued at $325,
including livestock worth $100.
White, W. T., 1 poll. Owned no land. Personal property was valued at
$50 and no livestock.White, Asa L. (b. 1846, son of William
White), 1 poll. Owned no land. Personal property was valued at
$375 including livestock worth $75.

From proximal locations in other years, and from censuses and other
scattered records, I believe the bold names above are brothers.

Alexander White, Jr. and Andrew White

1830 Census, South Carolina, Pickens District.

Alexander White 50-59; his presumed wife 50-59 (b. 1770-80). He had
a son 15-19 who could be Yancey, and a son 20-29. He had two daughters
20-29 (the right age to be Mahala), one girl 15-19 , and one girl 5-9,
making a household of 8. There were no slaves. There are age matches to
Yancey, to Mahala, and to the mother Elizabeth. However I have no proof
this is the family of Yancey White.

Adolphus White, father of William White:
His children, siblings, and ancestors

MIGRATION

William White’s father Adolphus White (b. 1811) came from South
Carolina (probably Pendleton District) to Carroll County, Georgia,
where he married
Emily Davis 9 Jan 1832. His brothers William (b. 1820) and Asa (b.
1832) also relocated to Georgia with other brothers and with their
mother Nancy White. They all made their home Carroll County then in
Paulding
County, Georgia. When Polk County was taken from Paulding in 1851
Adolphus and family found themselves at Ven Wert in Polk County. The
others nearby fell into Utah District in Paulding. Records of
both counties must be searched. It is claimed that Martha White (b.
1828) is the sister of Adolphus.

Adolphus White born 1811.A great
many geneologies wrongly say that his mother was Nancy Bowie, b. abt.
1797* and
his father was William H.
White the schoolteacher b. May 1792 in Oconee County, SC.* It is easy
to see what is wrong when you look at ages. That couple is
younger than
usual at the birth of their first child. Besides, the Georgia Nancy
White, the real
mother was documented in 1880 living with son William in Paulding
County. She was born 1793. Yes, she was said in the 1850 census
for Paulding County to be born 1797. Age 14 at the conception of her
first child? The 1850 census was probably the source taken
in the inaccurate claims. The wife of the schoolteacher William H.
White
was shown in the 1840 census of Pickens County, SC, to be age
40-49 -- thus born between 1791 and 1800. Could be Nancy b. 1793 but
the William H. White family was still in South Carolina in 1840 while
Carroll County, Georgia already had a handful of South Carolina
families, my family of interest possibly among them.

Summary: The mother of Adolphus White
is Nancy ____, born about 1793 in South Carolina. Her father and mother
were also born South Carolina (1880 Paulding County census). The father
of Adolphus White, name unknown by me, was born in South Carolina,
probably 1785 to 1790 -- a little older than the bride. The father of
Adolphus died after 1831 in South Carolina (the last child Asa was born
1832 in South Carolina), or he died after migrating to Georgia with his
children about 1833.

Summary of William H. White,
schoolteacher, mainly from the 1840 Pickens County, SC census. He was
age 40-49. His wife was 40-49. The oldest child at home was 15-19 and
the youngest was under 5. The right family will have about five
offspring born 1811-1820. I don't think William H. White is the right
family.

To find initial evidence of
the cousins, I need to find a father and mother in
Pendleton/Oconee one of whose sons is William H. White, b.
May 1792 in Oconee Co. (Pendleton), married Nancy Bowie b. 1797; and a
second son b. about 1780 who married Elizabeth, who would be the father
of Yancey, born c. 1813 in the parents' 30s.

*=Items
with an asterisk are the claims of others not confirmed by this writer.

I have not researched the parents and siblings of Adolphus White,
beyond suspecting as brothers the South Carolina-born Whites in Carroll
and Paulding Counties, Georgia. Researcher Lee Muse presents this
work:
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/46796208/person/24213435420/facts
I hope it is accurate but I can't vouch for it, since I haven't
researched it.
He has the father of Adolphus White as William White (1792-1860) and
his mother as Nancy White (1796-1884), who lived and died in Wagener,
Oconee Co (previously Pendleton District), SC.

Adolphis White 1850 census. Whites live in Carroll and
Paulding, two adjacent counties. Those born in South Carolina may be of
one family. The South-Carolina-born heads include Adolphus White (1811) in Paulding
County; in Carroll County are William
White (1820), B. F. White
(1819), Carter White (1800),
and Wesley White (1817).

An older generation of Whites in Carroll County was born in
Virginia: William White, b. 1780, and Jesse White, born 1777. The
latter lived in the household of Thomas Snow (b. 1794 NC) and Mary Snow
(b. 1801 Georgia), hinting that he is the father of Mary Snow. If so,
he migrated to Georgia before 1801, as did Willliam, who married
Elizabeth, born in Georgia in 1785 and perhaps married in the
neighborhood of 1800.

Other Carroll County Whites were born in Georgia: Richard White b.
1820, James M. White b. 1829, and Obediah White b. 1805.

Whether the older generation is related to those who came later I
have not determined and will not take the time to trace. But the other
five born between 1800 and 1820 in South Carolina may have been
brothers. Or cousins.

To Be Investigated Further

This
narrator has been plodding through research for several decades on
behalf of his White family and his Hardin family. He has now declared
an end to the White research, and he has ended the investigative work.
What follows are some suggestions for further research.

The
Adolphus White Family of Pendleton District, South Carolina

Adolphus White born 1811.
His mother was Nancy Bowie, b. abt. 1797* His father was William H.
White b. May 1792 in Oconee County, SC.* Verify.

The Yancey White Family of Pendleton District/Oconee County, South
Carolina

Yancy White was born 1811 (1870 census reports b. 1809, 1880 census
reports b. 1813) and his mother was Elizabeth White b. 1780, both
according to 1860 Cave Spring, Georgia census. His past before 1840
(when he lived in Pickens District, SC) is needed, and his father's
name (with other wives, if any) is needed. Yancey White married
Margaret Rebecca Brice, who was born 1801-1802 according to the
1850 census for Anderson District, SC.

Yancey had a sister (according to uncredited sources on line) named
Mahala White, b. 1804, who married Thomas Bryce b. 1805 the brother of
Margaret Rebecca Bryce. The informant,
Debbie Bryce Mccollum, reports her ancestor is Alexander Bryce, the
brother of Thomas Bryce. These connections should be verified and
expanded.

Confirm connection of Adolphus and Yancey White. Were they first
cousins?

To find initial evidence of
the cousins, you need to find a White couple in Pendleton District one
of whose sons married Nancy (Bowie? b. 1797) and produced a son
Adolphus White; and a second son b. about 1780 who married Elizabeth
and produced Yancy White about 1812.